Both girls were vulnerable from being bullied at school and Girl L saw it as a chance to make 'friends'.

She can barely remember their first encounters now, but they're still embedded in her mum's memory.

Recalling an incident involving Mohammed Imran Ibrar, also known as Bully, her mum said she realised the girls were hanging around with older men when Greater Manchester Police called to their house to ask about her daughter's friends who had been reported missing.

Girl L was honest and said the men had given her alcohol and a cigarette for the first time and her mum tried to ground her.

But Girl L continued going out and started going missing and coming home drugged.

She said in evidence: "They used take us to houses, buy us drinks and then make us, like, do things in exchange for cigarettes."

Some of the men Girl L met in the beginning. Mohammed Imran Ibrar aka Bully (left) and Mohammed Irfraz aka Faj (right).

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Girl L's mum said: "Years after it ended, she moved house but they still found her, followed her and tried to gain access to her home.

"She took an overdose and had to leave her home as she's too scared to go back."

Her mum also said that one of the men's girlfriends shouted abuse at them in a supermarket after Girl L started to co-operate with the police.

Girl L said it was 'intimidating' having to give evidence in the witness box just feet away from her abusers in the dock and admitted she still has trust issues, is paranoid about people following her and has trouble sleeping.

She said: "Some of the verdicts were good, I just wish some of them did get longer.

"And I wish some of them did get [convicted] because some of them didn't for what they did to me.

"I think Faj should have got [convicted]. . . How [could] the jury believe one thing I said and not the other?"